Hey Jude · The Beatles

121 bars, 6:29, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-14 and 28-30, and 19 more places -- 57.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
HEY JUDE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 22, 38, 41, 45, 47 and 4 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 7 sections: 95 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-103.

CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDJS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Jude?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Hey Jude hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 6:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hey Jude?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 22, 38, 41, 45, 47 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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